Venice
Highlights
Wat Blijft | What Remains
Voice and Dutch text : Geert Vermeire (writer, performer). Field recordings, composing, production & mixing : Stefaan van Biesen [composition and field recordings in Athens, Venice and Antwerp]. Art exhibition [re]present, Attenhoven Church, Belgium
• Suite Vénitienne (Venetian Suite)
Suite Vénitienne is a series of photographs and diaristic texts documeting Sophie Calle’s surveillance of Henry B, a man she does not know and has no particular reason to follow. An investigation on her own psychological projections and emotions while building a fictional construct around her subject.
Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
• From Home to Home
Walking artist Andrea Vassallo, has created a 360 degree video installation of his 1850 km walk that he began in June 2021, from from his home in the West Sussex town of Lancing in the UK, to his childhood home on the outskirts of Venice, in Italy in August 2021 which enables gallery visitors to experience the walk in a new way.
Quiddity
The University of Chichester presents Quiddity – a showcase of work from our Fine Art PhD students and technicians, including "From Home to Home" by walking artist Andrea Vassallo, who has created a 360 degree video installation of his 1850 km walk from Lancing in the UK, to Venice, in Italy in 2021.
Hythlodaeus / Utopia
The soundwalk “Hythlodaeus / Utopia” is a composition based on the poems “Unfolding the City” by Geert Vermeire and “Siren” by Stefaan van Biesen, incorporating field recordings made during walks in Venice and Antwerp. Created for the Cities and Memory project, the piece draws inspiration from Thomas More’s exploration of Utopia, combining voice, composition, and environmental sounds to form an immersive soundscape.
• Let’s go flanery
This paper examines the concept of the female* flaneuse in both theory and practice, highlighting how women’s urban walking challenges the traditionally male-centric flanery through a transgressive and feminist spatial claim. It also explores the author’s performative research on how flanery can reshape cities mentally and physically by emphasizing embodied and emancipatory practices.
Articles elsewhere
The 61st Venice Biennale and the Feeling of Elsewhere
A Guide to In Minor Keys by GessoThere are cities that ask you to move quickly and there are cities that insist you surrender your sense of direction.Venice belongs to the second category.Nothing here unfolds in a straight line. You follow sound before...
Contemporary Performance Almanac 2018
The Contemporary Performance Almanac is an annual overview of Contemporary Performance created within the previous 3 years and the 2018 edition was the 5th volume of the almanac since it was initiated in 2013.For the 2018 edition I submitted details of...
Wednesday, Barcelona
A seagull flew through the moon, its belly lighted up by the sun. A bright square on the wall of a building. A circle producing angular shapes, transformation is at the core of the world.When I woke up at 4.30 a.m. the sky was still black but the darkn...
‘No holiday’ – Dorsoduro, Venice
A trip to see the 2017 edition of the Venice Biennale gave me the opportunity to take my 'No holiday' performance there to continue the journey.After spending a few days becoming accustomed to the city, I decided to focus on crossing bridges that span ...